Quotes of: Old-friend Keyword

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

No Country for Old Men

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

No Country for Old Men

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

The Old Man in the Corner

You boys can keep your virgins, give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Love is a Dog from Hell

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

The life and writings of Thomas Paine

I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.

The Little Silkworm

Mmmm,' hummed Mum. 'What's it called?' 'Butch,' Dad told her. 'Butch!' Mum repeated. 'It doesn't sound like a small, docile, house-trained dog to me

A Load of Old Tripe

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.

Tell Me When I'm Dead

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

The Old Man and the Sea

The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?

The Old Mermaid's Tale

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

The Prince of Tides

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

P.S. I Still Love You

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

Tempest-Tost

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

That Old Cape Magic

I love how babies look like old people. I saw a baby the other day that looked exactly like my grandpa, only taller.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!" You display an unseemly joy," he remarked. "I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.

These Old Shades